Gin Pahit

Ingredients

1 ½ oz Gin
½ oz Angostura Bitters
Lemon twist - for garnish

oz ml cl

Glass: Cocktail

Average rating

1.0

Votes

Your rating

Instructions

Combine the ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until the drink is sufficiently chilled. Strain the drink into the chilled Cocktail glass. Garnish with the Lemon twist.

Notes

Gin Pahit is an alcoholic drink made with gin and Angostura bitters, as enjoyed in colonial Malaya and generally associated with British colonial era. The name means "bitter gin" in Malay.

The recipe, according to the food and beverage service of the Raffles Hotel, is 1½ ounces of gin and ½ ounce of Angostura bitters. At least one book on drinks from the 1930s describes it as identical to a pink gin, which would imply considerably less bitters.

David A. Embury states that this drink is made with yellow gin and 3 dashes of Angostura bitters to 2 dashes of absinthe, in The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

See more two ingredient cocktails.

1 person has tried this recipe

by @inerte at Sunday, 01 January 2023

Specific liquor brands used
- Gin Beefeater
Extra volume: 100%

The worst "cocktail" I've ever tasted. You better stir that ice because Gin isn't enough to water down the Angostura Bitters. Now that I think about it, I did with double the volume and sipped. Perhaps it's meant to gulp down as a shot?

Nutrition Facts

	Calories	Total Fat	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Protein
Gin	115.9	0	1.6	0	0	0
Angostura Bitters	?	?	?	?	?	?
Total	115.9	0	1.6	0	0	0

About the ingredients

Angostura Bitters: Angostura bitters is a concentrated bitters (herbal alcoholic preparation) based on gentian, herbs, and spices, by House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago. It is typically used for flavouring beverages or, less often, food. The bitters were first produced in the town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela), hence the name, but do not contain angostura bark. The bottle is recognisable by its distinctive oversized label. Angostura is Spanish for 'narrowing', the town of Angostura having been at the first narrowing of the Orinoco River.
Gin: Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis). Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in southern France, Flanders and the Netherlands, to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains. It then became an object of commerce in the spirits industry. Gin emerged in England after the introduction of jenever, a Dutch and Belgian liquor that was originally a medicine. Although this development had been taking place since the early 17th century, gin became widespread after the William of Orange–led 1688 Glorious Revolution and subsequent import restrictions on French brandy.

More cocktails with ingredients similar to Gin Pahit

Angostura Bitters and Gin